Barrow Hill Junior School

Fairy Tale Animations

A few months back I took 3R to the City Learning Centre to learn how to create animations. Before going to the CLC, in small groups, the children decided which fairy tale they wanted to animate. They then created a storyboard, made their characters out of card and some created backgrounds too. We took the characters, backgrounds and storyboards to the CLC, where we spent the day creating animations, adding sound, title and credits.

Here they are, click on the links to open them.

Two Billy Goats and the Troll

The Three Pigs and the Superheroes

Sleeping Beauty

Shrek One

Shrek 2

Robin Hood

Goldilocks 1

Giants House

Cinderella

Cinderella at the Palace

What do you think?

ICT in ART

Today I was on an ICT in Art course at the CLC. We looked at lots of different ways that ICT can be used in Art. One of the activities we carried out was creating animations using clay models and stop frame animation. (I took 3R to the CLC a month or so back to create fairy tale animations - I am hoping to post them on the blog when I get them back). I love creating animations. I get lost in my own little world of creativity and when I add sound or music to them I get so excited!

This is what I created today, it's not Chicken Run, but I only had 20 minutes to make it! Make sure that the volume is turned on because it has sound.

Download arwen_longer_2.MOV (Quick Time Movie)

Download arwen_longer_2.AVI (Windows Media Player)

        

Are you aware that movies like Wallace and Gromit are made using stop frame animation? Aardman Animations, the company responsible for creating 'Wallace and Gromit' have a wonderful website that gives lots of information about what they do. Take a look at this video clip, it shows a little of what went on behind the scenes during the making of 'Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Wererabbit' - very inspiring!

        

The website is amazing, I love the typeface and the illustrations.

Can you catch the characters that move along the bottom of the home page? Take a look and have a go!